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justmoon33 karma

It was 7002 BTC but who's counting! This was part of the bounty that we won for making the animated video about Bitcoin. I was pretty depressed for about two weeks but at the end of the day money is just money.

There is a very small chance that I could recover the key from an old drive or something but right now my focus is on building Coil so recovering those coins is on the back burner.

justmoon7 karma

Favorite sport would have to be StarCraft 2 and my favorite player is Serral.

If you exclude esports... I'm not closely following any sport but being German, I'd have to go with soccer and the team of my hometown VfB Stuttgart.

justmoon6 karma

Haha! That's a reference to the O-1 visa status I had while working at Ripple. The official title of the visa is that it's for "aliens with extraordinary abilities" and I always thought that sounded like a movie premise.

justmoon5 karma

My involvement in the Bitcoin community was mostly 2010-2012 and his involvement really ramped up in 2013, so we didn't overlap. I don't even know him personally.

justmoon5 karma

From my perspective - and that is just one subjective viewpoint - what happened is this: Bitcoin came first. XRP was the first major contender. So a lot of people viewed it as a threat to Bitcoin, so they fought against it. Simple as that.

It all depends on what your goals are. To me, it was to make payments easier and cheaper, so for that goal, the more currencies that are competing and the better they are, the better for users. But if your goal is to make money investing in Bitcoin, then ideally there wouldn't be any competition, so you're going to be against XRP and other currencies.

There are also people who are into Bitcoin for idealistic reasons and XRP doesn't fit their ideals. Other people are into XRP because it fits theirs. I think that's all fine, I just wish people were more civil with each other when they disagree but that's a problem that isn't unique to crypto.